Building & Construction

Ceilings clad with timber, larch and oak feature in our latest lookbook, which rounds up eight homes where wooden ceilings add a sense of warmth. While often used for flooring within the home, wood can also be used for ceilings, adding texture and warm hues to create inviting and cosy living spaces. Among the eight […]

Dezeen School Shows: a project that examines how digital tools are reshaping human behaviour is among the projects by students at Drexel University. Also featured is an interior designed to celebrate childhood nostalgia and a project imagining a hyper-automated world where human relationships have vanished. Drexel University Institution: Drexel University School: Antoinette Westphal College of

This week on Dezeen, we exclusively showcased a number of Expo 2025 Osaka Pavilions, including the Bahrain Pavilion by architect Lina Ghotmeh. In the lead-up to the event, we looked at 10 standout pavilions from Expo 2025 Osaka, including the France Pavilion, designed by studios Coldefy and Carlo Ratti Associati and fronted with a giant

NYCxDesign 2025, Boston Design Week and Capital Brutalism are among the current and upcoming architecture and design events in the US that are featured in Dezeen Events Guide. Other events during the month include Erwan Boulloud | Touching Time and Threads of Change: Design and Data. Capital Brutalism 1 June 2024 to 30 June 2025, Washington

A near-continuous curved facade and slatted screens have been included to create privacy for this house designed by Canadian studio Architecture Building Culture on a prominent rocky outcrop in West Vancouver. Called Piano House after the client’s white baby grand, which has pride of place in the living room, the property is located on a

Dezeen Showroom: following Milan design week 2025, we’ve detailed six more furnishings, lights and tiles that launched during the event and were published on Dezeen Showroom. Milan design week took place from 7 to 13 April this year and platformed the release of a wide variety of products by various international brands. From industrial-looking metal chairs

Dezeen Showroom: Italian brand Casalgrande Padana has published an array of products on Dezeen, including tiles from its Terrae collection and a newly-released table. In a departure from Casalgrande Padana’s tile-centred catalogue, the brand’s recent releases include a table topped with large stone tiles in various shapes and sizes. The tabletops are both decorative and

A thick thatched roof topped with purple iris flowers shelters this timber sheep pen in Kyoto, Japan, which has been designed by local architecture practice 2m26. Named Hitsujigoya, meaning sheep pen in Japanese, the wooden hut was designed to act as a gatehouse separating the male and female sheep in a field, providing covered sleeping

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a curved concrete church in Albania completed by architecture practice Arkpro Studio. Topped with a lead-shaped roof, the Catholic church was designed as a landmark for the northern village of Narac. Arkpro Studio designs concrete church in Albania as “new village centre” “This is what music without

Local practice Studio Fffaaarrr has designed a coffee shop-cum-tennis club, complete with full-size tennis court, in the centre of the Indonesian capital. The Common Grounds Terra cafe and Menteng Tennis Club project in Jakarta “is an experiment in typology, which explores the possibilities and the collaborative functions between the two,” Studio Fffaaarrr co-founder Andro Kaliandi